Living is Easy With Eyes Closed (Spain)  

This warm-hearted entertainment is based on a sort-of true story about a Spanish schoolteacher (Almodóvar regular Javier Cámara) who, in 1966, went searching for John Lennon when the caustic Beatle was shooting How I Won the War in the still-fascist country. Along the way he picks up two hitchhikers: a longhaired boy running away from his Franco-supporting father and a slightly older girl, pregnant and returning to her home town. The results are beautifully shot and hit all the right notes—a little too insistently, in their going-to-Hollywood, not Liverpool, way.

Centre, October 3 (1 p.m.) and 8 (6 p.m.)